@article{2014:hrbek:europawahl,
title = {Europawahl 2014: Kontinuität und neue Facetten},
year = {2014},
note = {Prior to the European elections in 2014 expectations and fears were
great. Some authors hoped that the elections would result in a
democratic revolution establishing EU-level parliamentary democracy,
as a result of the “front-runners,” which were presented by the
European parties. Others feared that a high number of EU skeptic and
non-aligned MEPs would obstruct the functioning of the new European
Parliament. The article begins by discussing the basic conditions that
allowed for such different expectations. It then presents the content
of the European electoral manifestos and an analysis of the electoral
campaigns, before comparing the predictions to the final results of
the European elections. The article concludes that shifts in some
national party systems could result in different national EU policies
if it is a stabilizing trend. Considering the EU political system, the
article presents a continuity thesis: it observes a tentative
pragmatic evolution of the EU political system, in which the
intergovernmental pillar does not lose its relevance to legitimize the
EU.},
journal = {integration},
pages = {205--227},
author = {Hrbek, Rudolf},
volume = {37},
number = {3}
}